Trinity to Showcase Novels, Art, and Theatre

Trinity University will host guest lecturers and artists this fall as part of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series. The annual series is made possible through an endowment created by Jane and the late Arthur Stieren of San Antonio. All events are free and open to the public.

Dylan Meconis, a cartoonist, writer, and designer, will present “Blink and You’ll See it: Form and Story in Today’s Graphic Novels.” Meconis’s graphic novel Outfoxed was nominated for an Eisner Award, and her ongoing historical graphic novel series, Family Man, was nominated for a National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award. Meconis is a member of Heliscope, the largest collective studio of comic book professionals in North America.

The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, in Chapman Center, Great Hall.  

Scott Cantrell, former classical music critic for The Dallas Morning News, will present “The State of Arts Criticism in America.” Cantrell was the Dallas paper’s staff classical music critic from 1999 to 2015. As a freelance writer he has written for The New York Times, Encyclopedia Britannica, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He also taught music history at the State University of New York in Albany, and for 20 years he was active as a church organist and choirmaster.

The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall, in the Dicke Smith Building.

Peggy Phelan, the Ann O’Day Maples Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and  English at Stanford University, will present “Contact Warhol: Performance and Photography Once More.” Phelan, a performance theorist, is also the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute. Published widely, Phelan is the author of Unmarked: the Politics of Performance (Routledge, 1993) and Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (Routledge, 1997); and editor and contributor to Live Art in Los Angeles (Routledge, 2012). Phelan is also co-editor of Acting Out: Feminist Performances (University of Michigan Press, 1993) and The Ends of Performance (New York University Press, 1997.)

The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14, in Chapman Center, Great Hall.